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DevOps Bootcamp

By : Mitesh Soni
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DevOps Bootcamp

By: Mitesh Soni

Overview of this book

DevOps Bootcamp delivers practical learning modules in manageable chunks. Each chunk is delivered in a day, and each day is a productive one. Each day builds your competency in DevOps. You will be able to take the task you learn every day and apply it to cultivate the DevOps culture. Each chapter presents core concepts and key takeaways about a topic in DevOps and provides a series of hands-on exercises. You will not only learn the importance of basic concepts or practices of DevOps but also how to use different tools to automate application lifecycle management. We will start off by building the foundation of the DevOps concepts. On day two, we will perform Continuous Integration using Jenkins and VSTS both by configuring Maven-based JEE Web Application?. We will also integrate Jenkins and Sonar qube for Static Code Analysis. Further, on day three, we will focus on Docker containers where we will install and configure Docker and also create a Tomcat Container to deploy our Java based web application. On day four, we will create and configure the environment for application deployment in AWS and Microsoft Azure Cloud for which we will use Infrastructure as a Service and Open Source Configuration Management tool Chef. For day five, our focus would be on Continuous Delivery. We will automate application deployment in Docker container using Jenkins Plugin, AWS EC2 using Script, AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Jenkins Plugin, Microsoft Azure VM using script, and Microsoft Azure App Services Using Jenkins. We will also configure Continuous Delivery using VSTS. We will then learn the concept of Automated Testing on day six using Apache JMeter and URL-based tests in VSTS. Further, on day seven, we will explore various ways to automate application lifecycle management using orchestration. We will see how Pipeline can be created in Jenkins and VSTS, so the moment Continuous? Integration is completed successfully, Continuous Delivery will start and application will be deployed. On the final day, our focus would be on Security access to Jenkins and Monitoring of CI resources, and cloud-based resources in AWS and Microsoft Azure Platform as a Service.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

An overview of the Chef configuration management tool

Chef is one of the most popular configuration tools. It comes in two flavors:

  • Open source Chef server
  • Hosted Chef

What we intend to do here is to show how to prepare a runtime environment for application deployment. Let's understand it in terms of application life cycle management:

  1. We have a Java-based Spring application package ready after continuous integration.
  2. We need to deploy the application in the Tomcat web server.
  3. The Tomcat server can be installed in a physical system, virtualized environment, Amazon EC2 instances, or Microsoft Azure virtual machines.
  4. We also need to install Java.

In all these, except for the first point, we need to do the installation and configuration activity manual avoid such a repetitive scenario, we can use the Chef configuration management tool to create a virtual machine in AWS or in Microsoft Azure and then install...